In September 2015 Akamai which is a cloud service provider and publishes State of the Internet report each quarter of the year. This report includes the data like the highest average internet speed around the countries.
In this list South Korea tops the position with 23.1 MBPS as average internet connection speed. In top 20 countries some other large countries in terms of economy also got the position. USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany are some countries which made it to this list.
Below are top 20 fastest internet speed countries around the world.
#1 South Korea
Average Connection Speed – 23.1 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 83.3 MBPS
#2 Hong Kong
Average Connection Speed – 17.0 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 64.8 MBPS
#3 Japan
Average Connection Speed – 16.4 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 75.1 MBPS
#4 Sweden
Average Connection Speed – 16.1 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 62.8 MBPS
#5 Switzerland
Average Connection Speed – 15.6 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 59.4 MBPS
#6 Netherlands
Average Connection Speed – 15.2 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 60.9 MBPS
#7 Norway
Average Connection Speed – 14.3 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 50.0 MBPS
#8 Finland
Average Connection Speed – 14 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 53.2 MBPS
#9 Czech Republic
Average Connection Speed – 13.9 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 48.7 MBPS
#10 Denmark
Average Connection Speed – 12.9 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 48.1 MBPS
#11 Romania
Average Connection Speed – 12.8 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 72.1 MBPS
#12 Singapore
Average Connection Speed – 12.7 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 108.3 MBPS
#13 Belgium
Average Connection Speed – 12.4 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 57.3 MBPS
#14 Israel
Average Connection Speed – 12.1 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 71.4 MBPS
#15 United Kingdom
Average Connection Speed – 11.8 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 50.9 MBPS
#16 United States of America
Average Connection Speed – 11.7 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 50.4 MBPS
#17 Canada
Average Connection Speed – 11.2 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 48.1 MBPS
#18 Ireland
Average Connection Speed – 11 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 46.4 MBPS
#19 Austria
Average Connection Speed – 10.9 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 43.5 MBPS
#20 Germany
Average Connection Speed – 10.7 MBPS
Average Peak Connection Speed – 46.8 MBPS
As per Akamai Average Peak Connection speed can give better representation rather just an average internet speed. Internet speed have various factors like size of the country, geography, government support, population density, and internet service providers competition.
If we talk about fastest average peak connection then here Singapore tops the list with 108.3 MBPS speed. Below is the complete report of fastest average connection speed and average peak connection speed.
